NIH Will Stop Posting Notices of Funding Opportunities in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts in FY2026

Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-143

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-143.html

Purpose:

Since 2005, NIH has posted all grant and cooperative agreement notices of funding opportunities (NOFOs) in both Grants.gov, a federal-wide portal for discretionary funding opportunities, and the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (NIH Guide). Both have served as official sources for NIH NOFOs.

This Notice informs the extramural community that, beginning in fiscal year 2026, NIH will no longer post NOFOs in the NIH Guide. Grants.gov will serve as NIH’s single official source for grant and cooperative agreement funding opportunities. The NIH Guide will continue to be used for policy and informational notices.

This effort is part of a wider strategy across NIH to simplify and streamline the application and funding process and to reduce duplication across federal systems. 

What to Expect in FY2026

·        NIH NOFOs will no longer be accessible from the NIH Guide.

·      All NIH NOFOs (expired and active) will remain searchable on Grants.gov using their Classic search or their new Simpler search.

·     NOFOs will no longer be included in the weekly NIH Guide Table of Contents subscription emails. You can use Grants.gov subscription services to receive notifications of new NIH funding opportunities.

·      NIH will continue to provide tools in the Funding section of NIH Grants & Funding to identify potential funding categories, topics, and opportunities you may be interested in. Any funding opportunity identified through our site will link to Grants.gov for the official opportunity posting.

Resources

·         Updates to Finding NIH Funding Opportunities and Information

 Please refer to the full notice linked above for further details.

Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.

Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-142

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-142.html

Purpose

This notice provides an update on the guidance issued in NOT-OD-25-110. Effective with the issuance of this Guide Notice, NIH has re-enabled the No-Cost Extension functionality within eRA Commons. Recipients may resume initiating first no-cost extensions in eRA Commons, in accordance with the NIH Grants Policy Statement, Section 8.1.1.3. Requests that were previously submitted via the prior approval module will not be reviewed, and recipients will need to initiate the first no cost extension within the Status module by using the Extension action.

Please refer to the full notice linked above for further details.

Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.

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NIH Announces a New Policy Requirement to Train Senior/Key Personnel on Other Support Disclosure Requirements

Notice Number: NOT-OD-25-133

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-133.html

Purpose

Background

This Guide Notice announces a new policy requirement that requires NIH recipients to provide training to all faculty and researchers identified as Senior/Key Personnel on the requirement to disclose all research activities and affiliations (active and pending) in Other Support (see Other Support form). The new requirement to train researchers to comply with other support disclosure requirements adds to the current policy (see NIH Grants Policy Statement (GPS), Section 2.5.1 "Just-in-Time Procedures") in order to provide a comprehensive plan in the area of disclosure requirements for recipients. This update will be included in the FY2026 version of the NIH GPS as part of NIH’s standard processes.

Effective October 1, 2025,  recipients must implement trainings, in addition to maintaining a written and enforced policy, on requirements for the disclosure of other support to ensure Senior/Key Personnel fully understand their responsibility to disclose all resources made available to the researcher in support of and/or related to all of their research endeavors, regardless of whether or not they have monetary value and regardless of whether they are based at the institution the researcher identifies for the current grant.

Please refer to the full notice linked above for further details.

Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.